Stephen Burke
Compassionate LICSW for practical change
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- New Hampshire, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stephen
Stephen Burke is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with two decades of clinical experience. He focuses on family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting struggles, stress, anxiety, addictions, and relationship challenges. Stephen aims to help people make practical changes that improve day-to-day life.
He brings a calm, non-judgmental presence to sessions and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Stephen uses a client-centered style that asks clients to set their own goals.
Background and approach
He combines that with solution-focused work to build on strengths and small successes. When trauma is part of the story, he uses trauma-focused methods to help people process difficult events and reduce their hold on current life. Sessions are collaborative.
He talks through options, helps plan steps, and adjusts based on what works. The pace is set by the client, and the therapy aims for clear, usable steps rather than long theory talks. Stephen also has experience with adoption-related issues and attachment concerns.
He applies that background when those topics are part of a person’s goals. Over the years he has worked with a wide range of relationship and life-change issues and uses practical strategies from his three main approaches. He is licensed in New Hampshire and Massachusetts as an LICSW and practices from New Hampshire.
Stephen offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How Stephen’s Approaches Work Online
Stephen uses client-centered therapy to follow the client’s goals and priorities. This approach means sessions focus on what the person wants to change and how they want to grow, rather than on a therapist-driven plan.He also uses solution-focused therapy, which looks for small, practical steps that lead to visible change. This is useful for stress, parenting challenges, relationship problems, and everyday coping strategies.
When trauma is part of the picture he draws on trauma-focused techniques to help people process painful events and lessen their impact on daily life. These methods are used carefully and paced to the person’s needs.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. He will talk with clients about their goals, try different methods as needed, and adjust plans based on what works best. That collaborative process helps tailor therapy to each person’s preferences and circumstances.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, handle sudden life events, and keep progress going between appointments. The variety of formats lets clients pick what feels most comfortable and practical for their situation.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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